«The Disney Corporation has recently found itself embroiled in the so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation debates in Florida. Disney, as both filmmaker and global conglomerate, remains a powerful force in representations of diversity in American culture. The essays in Neo-Disneyism include examinations of films such as Return to Neverland, Luca, and Encanto, and Disney’s own reinterpretations of its classics in its live-action remakes, as well as examining the theme parks. This groundbreaking book offers new perspectives in Disney scholarship as well as bringing a critical eye to the most pressing issues of identity in our current time.»
(Professor Johnson Cheu, Michigan State University)
«This collection is a needed reassessment of Disney media adaptations in the last twenty years. The essays consider examples of inclusivity and the gaps needing transformation, underscoring the potential for an iconic American symbol of commercial success to advance social justice, gender equity, and racial/ethnic inclusivity, encouraging difficult conversations.»
(Professor Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College)
In 2003 Brenda Ayres published The Emperor’s Old Groove: Decolonizing Disney’s Magic Kingdom with Peter Lang. The contributors to its collection of essays arguedthat although the Disney Company had been making attempts to representmulticultural diversity, it persisted in inculcating insidious racial, cultural, andgender stereotypes. Nearly twenty years have passed since that analysis, andcurrent scholars—many of them young and non-Western—are assessingmore recent Disney films and finding them to be more inclusive, tolerant, andaffirmative than previous works from the magic kingdom. The appraisal of Disney entertainment in the twenty-first century is the focus of the thirteen chapters by scholarly contributors from around the globe, finding it to be more inclusive, tolerant, and affirmative of multiple cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, and gender as well as the differently abled and mentally challenged. The analysis also suggests what Disney might yet do to promote peace, harmony, and wellbeing in a world that desperately needs to learn how to get along with others.
Описание: 1. Introduction: "Hair is the Woman's Glory"-Unless It's Red.- 2. The Devil Has Red Hair: And So Do Other Dissemblers in Judeo-Christian Narratives.- 3. "Real Are the Dreams" Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi.- 4. Les Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads.- 5. The Agency of Red Hair on the Mage Gender Equivocal in Mr. Rochester, The Little Stranger, The Danish Girl, and Elsewhere.- 6. "Here we are again!" Red-haired Golems Galore Including Those in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.- 7. Tangled Webs of Red Hair from the Grimm Brothers to Kate Morton.- 8. The Other Redheads Throughout Asia and Africa.- 9. Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi.- 10. Rebellious Royals: From Disney's Ariel to Pixar's Merida.- 11. Neo-Victorian Freakery: Flaming-Haired Women, Art, Dolls, and Detection.- 12. STEAM(y) and Marvel(ous) Women: Agent Scully, Lisbeth Salander, Beth Harmon and the Black Widow.- 13. Epilogue: The Splitting of Red Hairs.
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